The web is constantly evolving and improving over time and there is already so much to learn and much more as time goes by.

For any newcomers, this is pretty scary, and it becomes quickly overwhelming.

I started as a working student in a web agency 2 years ago with no concrete experience and not a clue how real web development was done. My first day, I was excited to discover new things but mostly afraid by the daunting task ahead of me.

The worst part (or best, depending on whether you are a half-full or half-empty glass kind of person) is that the more you discover about the various aspects of web development, the more you realize how little you actually know.

When it comes to which programming languages are in demand by employers, JavaScript, Java, Python, C++, and C—in that order—came out on top in a recent developer survey. Developers, however, want to learn languages like Python, Go, and Kotlin.

A survey of developers by technical recruiter HackerRank, conducted in October, found no gap between languages employers want and what developers actually know, with JavaScript barely edging out Java. But as far as which languages developers prefer, Python is the language developers most want to learn—and many already know it, HackerRank found.

HackerRank also queried about which languages developers were planning to learn next. The top languages developers said they will learn were—in order—Go, Python, Scala, Kotlin, and

Learning & Education

1 in 4 developers started coding before they could drive

It’s never too early — or too late! — to start coding. Of the roughly 39,000 developers surveyed across all professional levels, more than a quarter of developers wrote their first piece of code before they were 16 years old.

Meanwhile, of all the developers who started coding after the age of 26, 36% are now senior or even higher-level developers, growing quickly in their careers.

When did you start coding?

Learning & Education

The PC revolution sparked a unique ambition among ‘70s kids

Unlike generations thereafter, if kids of the seventies wanted to see innovative technology, they’d have to build it themselves — they had no other choice. There were no widespread resources to teach them how to build software. Almost half of all developers (47%) between the ages of 45 and 54 started coding before they were 16 years old. Meanwhile, developers between 18 and 24 today are the least likely to have started coding before 16 (only 20%).

Learning & Education

1 in 4 developers started coding before they could drive

It’s never too early — or too late! — to start coding. Of the roughly 39,000 developers surveyed across all professional levels, more than a quarter of developers wrote their first piece of code before they were 16 years old.

Meanwhile, of all the developers who started coding after the age of 26, 36% are now senior or even higher-level developers, growing quickly in their careers.

When did you start coding?

Learning & Education

The PC revolution sparked a unique ambition among ‘70s kids

Unlike generations thereafter, if kids of the seventies wanted to see innovative technology, they’d have to build it themselves — they had no other choice. There were no widespread resources to teach them how to build software. Almost half of all developers (47%) between the ages of 45 and 54 started coding before they were 16 years old. Meanwhile, developers between 18 and 24 today are the least likely to have started coding before 16 (only 20%).

The 2018 Web Developer RoadmapAn illustrated guide to becoming a Frontend or Backend Developer with links to courses

Want to learn to code? There is no better time to start than right now. Below is an illustrated roadmap focussed on how to become a developer in 2018. Don’t let these illustrations scare you. You by no means need to understand everything on this map to become a stellar developer. In fact, you don’t even need to take them that seriously if you don’t want to to. Instead, use these maps as a starting point to help guide your learning as you go.

This awesome illustrated guide to becoming a web developer was created by

As a programmer, I’ve seen a lot of poor practices, not just around code, but also around teamwork skills. I’ve been guilty of practicing many of these bad habits myself. Here are my top 35 bad programming habits, organized into four categories: code organization, teamwork, writing code, and testing and maintenance.

Code organization

The habit of postponing code fixes is not merely a problem of priorities. Organizing your issue tracker might generate some progress, but you also need to have a way of tracking smaller issues that come up. Adding “TODO” comments is a quick way of making sure you don’t miss anything.

Studying web development is a path with many ups and downs. You might have one day where you figure out a tough problem and feel absolutely amazing. But then the very next day, you get stuck on a seemingly easy problem for hours. You end up feeling completely defeated.

It’s often hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But when you’re in those tough, dark spots, try to find the motivation to hang in there.

Remind yourself of your ultimate goal in learning to code. Maybe it’s to get a better job, to provide for your family, or to find a more purposeful form of work.

In the previous two years we covered best practices for writing and operating Node.js applications (read the 2016 edition & 2017 edition). Another year has passed, so it’s time to revisit the topic of becoming a better developer!

In this article, we collected a few tips that we think Node.js developers should follow in 2018. Feel free to pick some development related New Year's resolutions!

Async - await landed in Node.js 8 with a boom. It changed how we handle async events and simplified previously mind-boggling code bases. If you are not yet using async - await read our introductory blog post.

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question.

Q: As the only UX/UI designer in my company, I worry that my growth will be limited because there are no other designers around that I can learn from. I could consider joining a company with a larger design team, but I enjoy my current company and believe in our values. What else can I do to continue my growth?

One of the things I believe the most firmly is that everyone has something to teach you if you’re looking for the lessons. And these people don’t have to be other designers at your company! There are many paths to becoming an awesome product designer and many people to learn from along the way:

The aim of this area of MDN is not to take you from "beginner" to "expert" but to take you from "beginner" to "comfortable". From there you should be able to start making your own way, learning from the rest of MDN and other intermediate to advanced resources that assume a lot of previous knowledge.

If you are a complete beginner, web development can be challenging — we will hold your hand and provide enough detail for you to feel comfortable and learn the topics properly. You should feel at home whether you are a student learning web development (on your own or as part of a class), a teacher looking for class materials, a hobbyist, or someone who just wants to understand more about how web technologies work.

You often hear that React is "declarative". This lecture digs in to what that means and how you can effectively extend React's model to more than just pixels. We’ll render a tone with the web audio API, declaratively, like any other element.

This is easily our most popular lecture at our workshops. You’ll learn how to tame the unweildy components that seem to get a new prop every time they get reused by decomposing them into composable parts.

This builds on the Compound Components video to give even more rendering control back to the application code. We'll learn how to manage implicit state in the background of an app, creating some of the most powerful abstractions found in the most popular libraries in the React ecosystem.

Learn React Js and Redux – Build 4 Projects is the best course for those students who know JavaScript, HTML and CSS. If they are interested in improving new web development framework skills, they can look at this course. This will help you to become professional and highly demanded web developer in the field of React Js and Redux and you can get highly paid jobs as a web developer. (

Here you can learn how to develop entire react js and redux application from beginning, make applications that deal with APIs and web requests, and create web applications with full authentication and real time databases. This course help you in making your choice react js and redux applications and building 4 projects as well.

Vue.js is an open source JavaScript framework for building interactive web interfaces. Vue.js was created by Evan You and first released in 2017. Vue.js is the V(View) in MVC(Model–view–controller). Some of Vue.js’s noteable featured include being component based, very fast, lean and extensible core, etc. Vue.js is gaining popularity very fast. In fact, it is one of the fastest growing JavaScript frameworks, as per GitHub. Vue.js developers have seen a meteoric rise in demand, as more and more companies begin using Vue.js. To help you learn Vue.js properly, we’ve listed some of the best Vue.js books, tutorials, courses & videos in 2017.

This is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of front-end engineering: how to learn it and what tools are used when practicing it in 2017.

It is specifically written with the intention of being a professional resource for potential and currently practicing front-end developers to equip themselves with learning materials and development tools. Secondarily, it can be used by managers, CTOs, instructors, and head hunters to gain insights into the practice of front-end development.

When I recently started to dive into the topic of machine learning, I had to relearn all the things I have studied about linear algebra, stochastic and calculus at school and university. I took a little refresher on matrix operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) in linear algebra and learned about the different types of matrices again: inverse and transpose matrices, and the identity matrix. The article applies those learnings in JavaScript. Furthermore, in the end of the article, there will be a little example to demonstrate why matrices are beneficial for computations in machine learning.

Una Kravets is absolutely right. In modern CSS development, there are so many things to learn. For someone starting out today, it's hard to know where to start.

Here is a list of things I wish I had known if I were to start all over again.

It looks easy. After all, it's just a set of rules that selects an element and modifies it based on a set of properties and values.

CSS is that, but also so much more!

A successful CSS project requires the most impeccable architecture. Poorly written CSS is brittle and quickly becomes difficult to maintain. It's critical you learn how to organize your code in order to create maintainable structures with a long lifespan.

There’s been an interesting Reddit thread circling my corner of the internet for the last week or so. It started with a question:

I’m inviting pure opinion here, but what’s your list of ten things that everyone looking for a good javascript role should know and understand. Personally, I’m in a role where what I know is adequate, but I want to be somewhere better; somewhere that has some flippin standards. I’m learning outside of work requirements at the moment, but there is so much to learn out there. The objective is to do good work in a good place. Narrow it down to your ten for me, or for you..

React Native allows you to build mobile apps by using only JavaScript. It is based on ReactJS and uses the same design. React Native enables using the React architecture as native application on Android, iOS, and Windows applications. Using React Native, you can compose a rich mobile UI from React components. React Native was announced by Facebook in 2015. React Native apps are indistinguishable from native apps built using Objective-C or Java. React Native has seen a steady rise in usage. The demand for React Native apps and developers who can make React Native apps has only gone up. React Native developers can make high salaries and get great jobs all around the world. As React Native is primarily based on ReactJS, if you have any knowledge of React you already have a head start on React Native development. Here’s some of the very best React Native books, videos, courses, and tutorials to help you learn React Native in 2017.

The purpose of this post is to emphasize the importance of JavaScript fundamentals for every front-end developer. I’m going to tell you why you should have a good knowledge of pure (Vanilla) JavaScript. This means JavaScript without any additional frameworks or libraries.

I’ll also mention a couple of resources that helped me to learn these basics.

Another reason behind this post is that many aspiring web developers tend to skip learning core JavaScript concepts such as hoisting, closures, or prototypes. They go straight to the hottest frameworks such as React or Angular 2. I’ll show you why this approach is not the most convenient one.

Most apps developed and released in Google’s Play store are abandoned by their developers. Over half of these apps get fewer than 5000 downloads, and most apps are considered unprofitable. This article is not going to make you the next Instagram, but it will hopefully help you get a nice base level of users that you can grow from.

To give you some better understanding of numbers, the example app in this article received 100,000 downloads in eight weeks. This is with a marketing budget of zero and very little work since launch. We’ll cover the basic app store optimizations that will help bring people to your Google Play page. Getting them to download and stay is up to you and up to the value your app provides.

React (also refered to as React.js or ReactJS) is an open-source JavaScript library created by Facebook. React is a view library. In other words, it’s the V(View) in MVC(Model–view–controller). ReactJS focuses primarily on speed, simplicity and scalability. Some ReactJS features include Virtual DOM, One way data flow, JSX, etc. Notable users of React include Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb, Netflix, etc. ReactJS is the hottest JavaScript framework out in 2017. Job opportunities are limitless and only growing. With the announcement of React VR, the demand for React developers will only increase. ReactJS developers make high salaries. This is the prefect time to get started with React.js. There are many ReactJS tutorials in 2017 with new ones coming out all the time. Primarily they are ReactJS books, courses and videos. But what is the best way to learn React.js? That simply depends on you. We’ve curated some of the very best ReactJS books,videos, courses and tutorials in 2017 to help you learn ReactJS.

There’s now a JavaScript library for executing neural networks inside a webpage, using the hardware-accelerated graphics API available in modern web browsers.

Developed by a team of MIT graduate students, TensorFire can run TensorFlow-style machine learning models on any GPU, without requiring the GPU-specific middleware typically needed by machine learning libraries such as Keras-js.

TensorFire is another step towards making machine learning available to the broadest possible audience, using hardware and software people are already likely to possess, and via advances in how accurate model predictions can be served with a fraction of the resources previously needed.

The popularity of JavaScript has led to a very vibrant ecosystem of technologies, frameworks, and libraries. Along with all the amazing diversity and energy in the ecosystem comes a high degree of confusion for many. What technologies should you care about?

Where should you invest your time to get the most benefit? Which tech stacks are companies hiring for right now? Which ones have the most growth potential?

What are the most important technologies to know right now? This post is a high-level overview of stuff you need to know, packed with links where you can learn all about it.

Remember as you’re learning to experiment with some actual code. You can play with code interactively on

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence are becoming ubiquitous in websites, chatbots and mobile apps. While Node.js may not be the language of choice for building and training ML models, it is an excellent option for building the user-facing server layer that brings ML product to life.

In this talk learn about the ways that Node and ML can work together, whether it’s through running ML models in the browser (using WebAssembly and WebGPU) or writing a node server for an ML chatbot.

We’ll show you how to take a pre-trained ML model built on any library (e.g. TensorFlow, Torch) and any language (python, lua), and build and deploy a node server for a Facebook messenger bot that interfaces with the model.

When you’re new to coding, it can be hard to know where to start, and it’s easy to get sucked down paths that could waste a whole lot of your time and money.

I’m Eric Elliott, author of “Programming JavaScript Applications” (O’Reilly), development team leader, JavaScript instructor, and public speaker. I teach and hire JavaScript developers. I know both sides of the market very well. Here are some of my favorite tips for aspiring coders:

Forget university programs. Unless it’s from Stanford or MIT, your degree will mean a lot less than having some apps to show off. In fact, most

Let me draw your attention to a certain post (Link).Take a look at that handsome young man saying he doesn’t want to post about JavaScript learning resources.Well…

This is a post about JavaScript learning resources.

The second I posted that is the same second I wanted to write about JavaScript learning resources and that’s how we got here.

This isn’t a ‘read this, read that’ and you’re good to go post, it’s a combo of ‘read this’, reviews, what to watch out for, my opinion (A LOT of this) what I think is good or bad and observations on popular JavaScript learning resources (think: books, video course sites, blogs etc.).

This is Part 1 of the ongoing series Machine Learning with JavaScript. Here’s Part 2.

JAVASCRIPT?! Shouldn’t I be using Python? Am I out of my mind to try those hefty calculations in JavaScript? Am I trying to act cool by using a language that is not Python or R? scikit-learn doesn’t even work in JavaScript? Short Answer: No. I am not drunk.

Long Answer: It is possible and I am actually surprised developers haven’t given it the attention it deserves. As far as scikit-learn is concerned, the JS people have made their own set of libraries to counter it, and I am gonna use one too. But first, a little bit about Machine Learning. Feel free to board this rocket 🚀 and jump to the code, though.